Topic: 1966 Driver's side Metal air-vent Pic requested..

[NEFaurora]

1966 Driver's side Metal air-vent Pic requested..

I restored my '66 Driver's side Metal air vent assembly last year, and thought that the bottom of it was bent out-so I bent it back up flush with the bottom... Now I am not so sure if it came that way.  Just need a few pics to confirm if the bottom lid "sticks" out a 1/3 of the way from the bottom, or if the bottom lid or "floor" of it is supposed to fit flush with the bottom.  I definately cannot remember on this one..

Thanks,

Tony K.

[midlife]

This is the best pic I have of my 66 airvent...

[NEFaurora]

Holy Cow!

It looks like the bottom is peculiarly bent (Top Right view in above photo)... I guess that that bend is factory!!! This definately beckons more research.. Any one got any more pics of the open bent area??

Thanks,

Tony K.

[J_Speegle]

The bend is typical - don't know if I've every thought if it as something that needed a picture of

[Twilight65]

Tony,
Here's a pic of mine before I restored it. No bend.
Dave

[drummingrocks]

The original one in my dad's '66 (bought it in '68, kept it ever since) has that bend.  I always assumed something happened to it, or maybe it was bent somehow.  It's definitely original and has never been removed from the car.

[NEFaurora]

It looks like I'll be bending it back...!!! lol....

Thanks for the pic Dave..

Tony K.

[NEFaurora]

Yeah, I mean if you really look at it, At first glance, It really looks like someone has "messed" with it.  Who knew that it came that way...lol...

Tony K.

[Richard P.]

Ford also used a different style driver side vent in 1966. I was looking at a friends California F/B and noticed that it was not like my Dearborn F/B.

[drummingrocks]

Hopefully this isn't too far off topic, but why do reproduction vents have that plastic cover on the bottom side?  I've seen a lot more original vents that were missing the cover than ones that had it...why is that? 

[CharlesTurner]

'65-early '66 have the plastic bottom and then starting sometime in '66, was changed to all metal.  In either '67 or '68 they were changed to all plastic.